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Three matches added to Impact Wrestling lineup

Posted on by Ian Carey

Impact Wrestling has added three matches to the lineup for Thursday’s show. 

X-Division Champion Trey Miguel vs. Bhupinder Gujjar is now scheduled to air on this week’s episode. Miguel is then scheduled to defend his title against Chris Sabin on Friday at Against All Odds. 

Also booked for Thursday is a match pitting Chris Bey vs. Jason Hotch. The following night, Bey and Ace Austin will defend the Impact tag titles against Hotch and John Skyler at Against All Odds. 

Heath will compete in the 8-4-1 match at Against All Odds but prior of that, he’ll be in the ring against Raj “Champagne” Singh on Thursday. 

Already announced for this week’s show is a Knockouts tag title match pitting The Coven vs. The Death Dollz. Joe Hendry vs. Sheldon Jean and Moose & Rich Swann vs. Nick Aldis & Jonathan Gresham are scheduled for Thursday as well. 

Impact Wrestling on AXS TV 6/8 lineup —

  • Knockouts Tag Team Champions The Coven (Taylor Wilde & KiLynn King) defend against The Death Dollz (Jessicka & Courtney Rush)
  • Moose & Rich Swann vs. Nick Aldis & Jonathan Gresham
  • Trey Miguel vs. Bhupinder Gujjar
  • Heath vs. Raj “Champagne” Singh
  • Jason Hotch vs. Chris Bey
  • Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry vs. Sheldon Jean in a non-title match

Impact Against All Odds (Friday, June 9) —

  • Impact World Champion Steve Maclin defends against Alex Shelley
  • 8-4-1 match for Impact World title shot: Nick Aldis, Bully Ray, Jonathan Gresham, Heath, Moose, “Speedball” Mike Bailey, Rich Swann, and PCO
  • X-Division Champion Trey Miguel defends against Chris Sabin
  • Dog collar match: Masha Slamovich vs. Killer Kelly
  • Impact Tag Team Champions Chris Bey & Ace Austin defend against The Good Hands (John Skyler & Jason Hotch)
  • Deonna Purrazzo & Trinity vs. Gisele Shaw & Savannah Evans
  • Eddie Edwards vs. Frankie Kazarian
  • Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry defends against Dirty Dango
  • Ohio Street Fight: oVe (Sami Callihan, Jake Crist & Madman Fulton) vs. The Design (Deaner, Kon & Angels)

Heath’s Impact Wrestling contract extended into 2023 due to injury

Posted on by Ian Carey

During a podcast appearance, Heath revealed he is under contract with Impact Wrestling until the fall of 2023 as his deal was extended due to injury.

The four-time WWE Tag Team champion said on the Stories With Brisco and Bradshaw podcast that his two-year deal with the promotion was extended by a year due to his hernia injury and subsequent surgery.

“I had two years with them, but my contract extended a year because I got hurt, had surgery, I was out for a year, rehab, therapy, all that good stuff,” he said. “Now, they’ve put Humpty Dumpty back together, I’m ready to go out there and have some fun.”

FKA Heath Slater, he was injured at Bound For Glory in October 2020. At the time, he was reported to have suffered a knee injury. Subsequent testing revealed he was also suffering from multiple hernias and a torn abductor muscle, keeping him out of action for 11 months. 

“Working for Impact, I’m doing as many as indies and signings as I can because I literally never, ever, ever had the chance to do these types of things and I’m excited to do them because it’s new for me,” he said.

Heath also said he’s focusing on being a parent and coaching his youngest daughter’s flag football team.

“100%, I can honestly say I’m enjoying life just because I’ve missed a lot during my days and I am not knocking wrestling or WWE,” he continued. “I tip my hat to Vince (McMahon). Thank you for the 15, 16 years I was with you, but I missed a lot of things like birthdays, Halloweens, Christmases. I missed a lot of stuff in my day to where now, I’m not missing nothing and my heart feels full.” 

Moose vs. Heath Impact World title match set for Sacrifice

Posted on by Ian Carey

Heath will be Moose’s next challenger for the Impact World Championship. 

The two will square off at March 5th’s Sacrifice on Impact Plus from Louisville, Kentucky.

The match was made when Heath came out and challenged Moose during the champion’s show opening promo Thursday, laying out Moose and standing tall with the belt afterward.

The Good Brothers will defend the Impact Tag Team titles against Violent By Design. Eric Young and VBD asked for the title shot Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows had offered some time ago in exchange for help. When the Good Brothers turned them down, G.O.D. and VBD attacked them and the match was made later.

Rhino vs. Eddie Edwards, born out of Edwards turning on Impact and aligning with Honor No More at No Surrender, was also announced in addition to JONAH vs. PCO.

Here’s the current lineup for Sacrifice:

  • Impact World Champion Moose vs. Heath in a title match
  • Impact Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers vs. Violent By Design in a title match
  • Knockouts Tag Team Champions The IInspiration vs. The Influence in a title match
  • X-Division Champion Trey Miguel vs. Jake Something in a title match
  • Eddie Edwards vs. Rhino
  • JONAH vs. PCO
  • Jay White vs. Alex Shelley

Impact Wrestling’s Heath set to undergo surgery

Posted on by Joseph Currier

The former Heath Slater is set to undergo surgery for injuries that he suffered in October.

Heath (real name Heath Miller) was supposed to win the Call Your Shot gauntlet match at Impact Wrestling’s Bound for Glory pay-per-view in October, but he was taken to the hospital due to suffering a hernia during the match. The gauntlet match had a stipulation where Heath or Rhyno had to win or they’d both be out of Impact Wrestling. With Heath getting injured, Rhyno instead won the match.

Heath posted a video this Thursday detailing his injuries and announcing that he’ll finally be undergoing surgery on Monday, March 1:

Alright, so I’ve been getting a lot of messages, texts and tweets and everything in between about, ‘Hey, where you at? What are you doing? What’s happening? Are you hurt? Have you had your surgeries? What’s going on with you?’ So, after three different doctors, three different ways to go with this, I finally found a doctor that can do everything at once. Yes, it has taken three months to find this doctor and yes, it has been an up and down rollercoaster ride of crap and… so, finally found the doctor that can do all my surgeries. I have a sports hernia on the left side of my pubic bone, another hernia on the right side that I don’t even know the name of it. My abductor muscle is actually ripped off the bone, has to get re-sutured and I have a rip in my abdomen wall on both sides. So, little bit of a mess. So my spirits are still high. I’m gonna be out for a little while. My surgery is, thank God, March 1. So, after March 1, it’s gonna be the road to recovery. So, yeah, keep me in your prayers everybody.

After being released by WWE during last April’s roster cuts, Heath made his Impact Wrestling debut at Slammiversary in July.

Bound For Glory notes: Kylie Rae update, Heath suffers hernia

Posted on by Josh Nason

There were a few things that didn’t go as planned for Impact Wrestling on Saturday’s Bound For Glory pay-per-view in Nashville, TN.

As reported last night, Kylie Rae missed her scheduled Knockouts women’s title match with champion Deonna Purrazzo with no announcement made on the show as to why. This left a lot of fans unhappy with people noting that if she was injured or ill, they should have announced it and everyone would have understood.

The story that went around was she was injured, but we were later told that was not the case. We have confirmed that no announcement was made because the company did not know the situation at the time and there was no communication. It is possible she was injured, but it’s unknown what the situation is. Right now all that is known is that she was in Nashville ready to work on Friday and did not come to the building on Saturday.

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As noted earlier today, Heath (Miller/Slater) was scheduled to win the Call Your Shot gauntlet match, but suffered a hernia during the match and was taken to the hospital. Due to the stipulation that if either Heath or Rhino lost the match, both would be out of Impact, the only option they had on the fly was to have Rhino gore Sami Callihan and pin him when they were the last two in the match.

The good news from a storyline perspective is that everything fit with the new ending. The bad news is that Heath is likely to need surgery which would put him on the shelf temporarily. He was taken to the hospital and diagnosed, but was back at the hotel late last night. Miller was injured very early in the match, and he believed it was a groin tear at the time.

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There was also an issue in many parts of the country with Comcast/Xfinity not airing the PPV due to a snafu on the cable side although it appears the broadcast was fine everywhere else. People who contacted us being unable to order generally did order it off FITE.tv when their PPV orders couldn’t be processed.

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Bound for Glory was supposed to be available in French through FITE.tv with Marc Blondin and Sylvain Grenier on the call, the duo who did Impact every week on RDS in Quebec between 2004 and 2015. Due to technical issues, they had to cancel it at the last minute.

They ran a test Friday night and everything was working with the platform they were asked to use. But, no test was done with actual live footage from the venue. Impact asked the duo to be ready for 7:25 pm on Saturday. They were all set up and when they tested it with the live footage, there were audio issues.

Blondin and Grenier could hear themselves and could see the video, but their audio wasn’t going out to where it needed to get to. They asked Blondin and Grenier to fix the problem and they were not able to since the night before everything was working and they had not changed anything since that point. Given the short timeframe from when the issues started to when the broadcast was starting, they had to cancel it.

Heath to make Impact Wrestling in-ring debut next week

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Next week’s episode of Impact will feature the former Heath Slater’s in-ring debut for Impact Wrestling.

It was announced on last night’s Impact that self-proclaimed TNA World Heavyweight Champion Moose will defend his title against Heath on next Tuesday’s show. The match has a stipulation where Heath will get a spot on the Impact roster if he wins.

After being released by WWE in April, Heath made his first appearance for Impact at Slammiversary earlier this month.

Heath interrupted a backstage interview with Moose on last night’s episode of Impact. Moose said he was giving out another invitation for someone to challenge for his title. Heath claimed that the TNA Championship Committee gave him a contract for a title shot. When Moose said there is no TNA Championship Committee, Heath said that would mean there’s no TNA Champion either.

After Moose agreed to give Heath a title shot, Scott D’Amore told Heath that he’ll open up a spot on the Impact roster for Heath if he defeats Moose next week.

Moose has been calling himself TNA World Heavyweight Champion since April. On last week’s Impact, Moose retained the title against Fallah Bahh before being attacked by EC3.

Here’s the full list of what’s been announced for next Tuesday’s Impact:

  • An open challenge for Eddie Edwards’ Impact World Championship
  • X-Division Champion Chris Bey & Rohit Raju vs. TJP & Fallah Bahh
  • Self-proclaimed TNA World Heavyweight Champion Moose defending against Heath
  • A sit-down interview with Impact Tag Team Champions the Motor City Machine Guns
  • Rich Swann will appear and give an update on his status after Eric Young attacked his ankle at Slammiversary